• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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        10 hours ago

        That’s like saying you can have space exploration without ballistic missiles. Once the technology is there power and/or the market will do whatever it wants with it.

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          4 hours ago

          Except even moreso with language models. Here it is not just a similar technology, but the exact same vehicle.

          Translation: The way scaling laws and gradient descent work for language models means that there is NO functional difference between a machine that does your homework and is designed to endlessly praise you, and a model specifically designed to identify viruses or medications.